Saddam’s execution and Media cruelness
Many of you would have watched the video of Saddam’s execution on local channels and on Internet but one might not have thought about the aftermath of releasing video on local TV Channels.
In Pakistan
Multan - A young boy who tried to copy hanging scenes from the execution video of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein died in central Pakistan, said police on Monday.
Mubashar Ali, 9, hanged himself, while re-enacting Hussein’s hanging with the help of elder sister, 10, after tying a rope to a ceiling fan and his neck in his home in Rahim Yar Khan district on Sunday, said a local police official.
The father of the deceased boy said that his children had been watching the video of Saddam Hussein’s execution on television and attempted to imitate the hanging as other family members thought they were playing in another room.
Police said that the death was accidental and a case of parental negligence.
Images of the fallen Iraqi dictator with a strap around his neck, surrounded by executioners in balaclavas, were repeatedly telecast by Pakistani television channels at the weekend
(Source)
In America
(AP) A 10-year-old boy was apparently mimicking Saddam Hussein’s execution when he hanged himself from a bunk bed, police and family members said.
“I don’t think he thought it was real,” Gustavo said. “They showed them putting the noose around his neck and everything. Why show that on TV?”
(Source)
This is just starting. I know about another incident in which a little girl in Pakistan lost her life by following the execution display on TV.
Long time back I wrote about another incident of media cruelness and selfihsness that how bloody and thristy they are to fetch a ‘news’ anyway without considering the affect of it. I was so pissed after reading the news of such innocent souls. The Irony is that this news was published in Jang newspaper as well which runs a GEO TV channel which also displayed the execution of saddam on that day.
This is not the freedom of media and I stronly condemn to display the footage of execution of any person on public TV. You can’t blame parents. How the heck parents would monitor their kids all the time? it’s IMPOSSIBLE. I again curse the cruelty of media people and concerned elements who have no sense and sympathy for humans. IMO, the media people are not less cruel than Iraqi govt who executed saddam since they have become reason of killing of infants.
I must say that parents should be very careful now and keep an eye on their kids. This is very sensitive situation. Such incidents also show how a media could play a big part to construct or screw a society. Unfortunately we are laballed as human beings while we are less worthy than a beast.
Image Credit: Jang Multimedia
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